Predictive Systems Institute

MAY 1, 1952 The idea of different times is extremely illusive, and probably has to be so
Rodney Collin

The idea of different times is extremely illusive, and probably has to be so, because if it becomes logical and obvious it means that it has already degenerated to the level of our ordinary mind and ordinary perception of time.

For me, the key to the understanding of this idea up to a certain point lies in Ouspensky's theory of six dimensions1—the first, second and third are clearly the length, breadth and thickness of space;
the fourth is the line of time that we recognise, the line of individual life; the fifth is infinite repetition of this life and all it contains—the 'eternal now'; the sixth must be the dimension in which all exists everywhere, all possibilities are realised, and all is one.

The fourth dimension is 'time', the fifth 'eternity', but what shall we call the sixth? For us it is Divinity itself.

Many philosophies have failed because they tried to jump directly from the fourth to the sixth without taking into account the strange overawing nature of the fifth dimension.

On the other hand, to study the fifth—eternal recurrence—without taking into account the glorious possibilities of the sixth means to lose oneself in a blind alley of pessimism.

We must search unremittingly for a crack through which we can pass to the sixth, or through which the sixth can enter directly into us.

Rodney Collin MAY 1, 1952